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Crossroads Christian Communications targeted by homosexual lobbyists

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Crossroads is in Uganda helping to “dig wells, build latrines and promote hygiene”. CIDA has given Crossroads $544,813 of taxpayer money to help with the effort – a rare case of the effective application of foreign aid.

Now, Crossroads is a Christian organisation – a real one – so it regards homosexual activity as sinful, making this donation of taxpayer dollars a paradigm of political incorrectness, a heinous atrocity of cosmic proportions.

Who cares that Crossroads is doing a good job and is actually helping Ugandans? No-one in the mainstream media, it seems because the horror of calling homosexuality a sin is a far bigger outrage than an African without clean drinking water. In the deranged little world of liberals, LGBT crusaders and mainline church sympathisers, this is known as social justice.

The time is coming when to be a Christian in the West will amount to being a pariah, persona non grata – as welcome as a leper in a kindergarten. Perhaps the time has already come: the question is, will our society – and Ugandans – be better or worse off for it?

From here:

An evangelical organization that describes homosexuality as a “perversion” and a “sin” is receiving funding from the Government of Canada for its work in Uganda, where gays and lesbians face severe threats.

The federal government has denounced virulent homophobia in that East African country and Foreign Affairs Minister John Baird has condemned plans for an anti-gay bill that could potentially include the death penalty for homosexuals.

Nevertheless, the federal government is providing $544,813 in funding for Crossroads Christian Communications — an Ontario-based evangelical group that produces television programming — to help dig wells, build latrines and promote hygiene awareness in Uganda through 2014.

Until Tuesday, the organization’s website carried a list of “sexual sins” deemed to be “perversion”: “Turning from the true and/or proper purpose of sexual intercourse; misusing or abusing it, such as in pedophilia, homosexuality and lesbianism, sadism, masochism, transvestism, and bestiality.”

Lower down the page, the group asks sinners to “repent.”

“God cares too much for you (and all of His children) to leave such tampering and spiritual abuse unpunished,” according to the group’s website.

Just hours after The Canadian Press contacted the group to ask a spokesperson about the site, the page in question disappeared from public view.

[….]

Steve Foster, president of the Quebec LGBT Council, said the federal government should stop funding groups like Crossroads.

For those interested in the Crossroads page that vanished, here it is, unexpurgated, complete with the indescribable abomination of Bible references:

Sexual Sins

 

Sexual Sins Include

Immorality – Moral behaviour that is contrary to God’s standards.
Perversion – Turning from the true and/or proper purpose of sexual intercourse; misusing or abusing it, such as in pedophilia, homosexuality and lesbianism, sadism, masochism, transvestism, and beastiality.
Adultery – Sexual activity with a person other than your spouse.
Fornication – Illicit sexual activity when you aren’t married.

Sexual sins are committed because of lust (1 John 2:16; Galatians 5:19-21). When you allow improper sexual drives to control you as a Christian, an inner tension will result in your mind, emotions and will. You will want to be spiritual, but find yourself being a slave to sensuality. The result is what the Bible calls double-mindedness (James 1:8), which leads to a reprobate mind (Romans 1:28).

Toronto Dominion: the diversity bank

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Religion isn’t dead in Canada: it’s not even languishing. The religion of diversity and inclusion is flourishing in Canadian companies. For example, the TD bank believes, with a confidence that can only be born of religious fervour, that diversity and inclusion being cardinal virtues is an a priori truth:

We take a holistic, three-pronged view of diversity and inclusion in our business activities: in how we recruit, manage and develop employees; how we serve our customers and market ourselves; and how we contribute to our communities.

While we’re gaining momentum, we know that becoming more diverse and inclusive takes time and commitment and we are still on the early stages of our journey.

Although it is lagging behind the commercial expression of this cultural credo, the Anglican Church of Canada adheres to a  similar pietism.

Naturally, the TD Bank concentrates much of its devotion on World Pride, the LGBTA “community” and health centres for “gay men” and “queer women”. TD’s “journey” to inclusion has yet to reach the more rarefied strata of paedophilia, bestiality, polyamory and incest: they themselves admit that they are “still on the early stages”.

Here is TD’s enticement to use their services: it appears that to get the $250, the bank would prefer you to be gay:

TD ad

And now for something completely different: homosexuals mocking the Nativity

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Gay JosephsThe Virgin Birth stretches the imagination of many western Anglican clergy beyond the breaking point.

The problem has been solved by a homosexual Columbian couple who have concocted a nativity scene with two gay Josephs and no Virgin Mary.

From here:

A gay couple has sparked outrage for displaying a ‘homosexual nativity scene’ in their Colombian home.

Andrés Vásquez and Felipe Cárdenas have come under fire for their all-male manger – where the baby Jesus has two father Josephs and the Virgin Mary is nowhere to be seen.

The country’s Catholic Church has labelled the display, in the northern city of Cartagena, as ‘sacrilege’.

Justin Welby intends to listen attentively to the “LGBT communities”

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A community is either a group of people living near one another or a group of people with the same interests. Since lesbians are interested in women, homosexuals are interested in men, bisexuals are interested in both and transsexuals are confused about who they are interested in, that amounts to four “communities”. He seems to have forgotten that the sexual deviancy alphabet has gone forth and multiplied to include at least LGBTQQIP,  Queer, Questioning, Intersex, and Pansexual; by this time next year there will undoubtedly be more. Where will he find the time to listen to them all?

And what about the heterosexual “community”? Will he listen to them? Probably not; no-one listens to them.

I suspect “LGBT communities” was a circumlocutory way of saying Changing Attitude.

It would have been far more interesting, refreshing and radical if he had announced that he wants to listen attentively to same-sex attracted individuals who are attempting – with little help from the church – to resist the attraction. Too much to hope for, I suppose.

From here:

On another divisive issue within the faith, he said that there must be “no truck with any form of homophobia, in any part of the church” while seeming to acknowledge the difficulty that view causes foreign adherents.

“What the church does here deeply affects the already greatly suffering churches in places I’ve mentioned like Nigeria,” he said. “I support the House of Bishops’ statement in the summer in answer to the government’s consultation on same-sex marriage. But I also know I need to listen very attentively to the LGBT communities, and examine my own thinking carefully and prayerfully.”

 

The future of the family according to the Anglican Church of Canada

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This cartoon was published in the November edition of the Anglican Journal:

 

It refers to a report from Statistics Canada that claims a 42% increase in same-sex couples over the last five years. It seems the report is flawed, since room-mates who are married – not to each other – could have been counted as same-sex couples.

No matter: even if the report is accurate, the percentage of same-sex couples is still only at 0.69% of the total number of couples.

What is interesting about the Journal’s publishing of this cartoon is that, yet again, the compulsive obsession the church has with legitimising homosexual activity has blinded it to the transparently obvious fact that the future of the family does not reside – and can never reside – in people of the same sex being barrenly “married” to each other.

Christian B&B owners have to pay homosexual couple $4,500

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The B.C. human rights kangaroo tribunal has ordered B&B owners, Les and Susan Molnar, to pay homosexuals Brian Thomas and Shaun Eadie $4,500 to assuage the bruised dignity and self-respect they suffered when prevented from indulging in a night of urningtum hanky-panky in one of the Molnar’s beds. Of course, nobody that has any dignity or self-respect would whine to a human rights commission simply because they encountered a Christian couple who had the mettle to stand up for what they believed to be right.

But this was not about “dignity” or “self-respect”: it was about compelling recalcitrant Christians to conform to the Zeitgeist – something that the Bible exhorts them not to do.

One might argue that Christian business owners have to obey the law of the land – in this case to “cease and desist the discriminatory conduct” – or not have a business. And that is what has happened in this case: the B&B closed in 2009, an insufficient punishment it seems, hence the $4,500 damages claim.

The question is: does anyone seriously think that we are making a better society for ourselves by driving Christians who will not grovel before the altar of the equality god out of business?

From here:

Christian owners of a bed and breakfast in British Columbia have been ordered to pay around $4,500 in damages after they refused to rent a room to a homosexual couple.

Brian Thomas and Shaun Eadie had reserved a room at the Riverbend B&B in Grand Forks in June 2009, but owners Les and Susan Molnar cancelled the reservation after realizing they were homosexual.

“To allow a gay couple to share a bed in my Christian home would violate my Christian beliefs and would cause me and my wife great distress,” Lee explained in tribunal documents.

Thomas and Eadie filed a complaint with the B.C. Human Rights Tribunal, which ruled in their favour on Tuesday. Tribunal member Enid Marion ordered the Molnars to “cease and desist the discriminatory conduct,” though they closed the B&B down in September 2009 as a result of the incident.

Marion agreed with the two men that the Molnars violated section 8 of the B.C. Human Rights Code, which states that it is a discriminatory practice to “deny to a person or class of persons any accommodation” because of “sexual orientation.”

 

Rowan Williams is frustrated that some Christians are disgusted by homosexuality

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From here:

He added: “Same with same sex marriage, where once more we’re used to being alongside people who are gay; many of our friends may be – indeed we may be – wrestling with that issue ourselves, and the Church is scratching its head and trying to work out where it is on all that, and what to think about it.

“What’s frustrating is that we still have Christian people whose feelings about it are so strong, and sometimes so embarrassed and ashamed and disgusted, that that just sends out a message of unwelcome, of lack of understanding, of lack of patience.

“So whatever we think about it, we need, as a Church, to be tackling what we feel about it.”

Rowan Williams, in his frustration, seems to miss a rather important distinction. We are all sinners and we all, from time to time do disgusting things; nevertheless, although somewhat tarnished, we are all still made in God’s image and should treat one another with the respect that God’s image deserves.

Just because an act evokes an emotional response of disgust doesn’t mean it isn’t intrinsically disgusting. Personally, I find the thought of homosexual sex simultaneously comical and disgusting; and not only do I feel not the least bit guilty about it, but I derive some satisfaction in knowing that my disgust has contributed in a small way to Rowan’s frustration.

How not to speak about homosexuality from the pulpit

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From here:

RALEIGH, North Carolina — A North Carolina group said it plans to hold a public protest on Sunday to denounce a Baptist minister’s anti-gay and lesbian sermon that has drawn hundreds of thousands of views on the Internet.

Pastor Charles Worley of Providence Road Baptist Church in Maiden, North Carolina told his congregation during a May 13 sermon that the Bible and God opposed homosexuality and that gay and lesbian people should be put in concentration camps.

“Build a great big large fence 50 or 100 miles long,” Worley said according to the video posted on YouTube. “Put all the lesbians in there. Fly over and drop some food. Do the same thing with the queers and the homosexuals. Have that fence electrified so they can’t get out. You know what, in a few years, they’ll die out. You know why? They can’t reproduce.”

I would like to make a few points about this:

First, Pastor Charles Worley seems to have missed one of the main features of Christianity: God loves everyone so much that he sent his only Son to die on the cross to atone for our sins. That includes the sin of homosexual sex.

Second, we as Christians are called to love as God loves; that includes homosexuals who indulge in same-sex activities. Loving a person means befriending them, accepting them, caring for them, treating them with dignity and wishing the best for them. At the same time, loving a person is not to condone – or bless – something that we believe is sinful; that is because repeated sin for which there has been no repentance destroys a person. How can you claim to love someone while approving of what will be their eternal undoing?

Third, if sinners are to be corralled behind an electric fence, we will all find ourselves there since we are all sinners. This is a basic tenet of Christianity; how a pastor can miss it is beyond me. Homosexual sex may be distasteful to heterosexuals but as a sin it is no more or less abhorrent that a whole catalogue of other sins, a catalogue that includes envy, greed, idolatry, gossip, jealousy, heterosexual fornication and so on. C. S. Lewis made the point (exactly where escapes me for the moment) that the most pernicious sins are the less visible internal ones that are thoroughly ingrained in our souls – like pride. Pastor Charles Worley could benefit by ruminating on that.

Fourth, the Bible tells us that homosexual acts are sinful. It does not tell us that being attracted to someone of the same sex is sinful any more than it tells us being attracted to someone of the opposite sex to whom we are not married is. Sinfulness is existential: it all depends on what you do with the attraction, whether you resist temptation or cave in to it.

Fifth, pastors like Charles Worley give Christianity a bad name and are an embarrassment to Christians whose intellect is still intact.

Here is the clip that has caused all the fuss:

Penguin anthropomorphism

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Penguins once again become a touching metaphor for humans; this time homosexuals who want to raise children. A couple of supposedly gay penguins in Madrid are yearning to be parents. I’m not sure how anyone knows that they are in the throes of unfulfilled parental yearning other than the fact that they have built a nest. I was under the impression that building nests is just something birds do. Still, someone is going to put an egg in it.

That proves that it was OK to give Elton and David an egg… err, a baby.

From here:

Two gay Gentoo Penguins, that have for six years yearned to be parents, have been given their own egg to rear in Madrid, reports say.

The two male penguins, Inca and Rayas, met at Madrid’s Faunia Park six years ago, and have been inseparable since then. However, they have been building a nest every year in the hope of being able to nurture a young penguin, to no avail.

The Times reports today that zoo-keepers will place an egg in their nest, in order for them to become parents.